8-letter words containing p, a, c
- crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
- crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
- crankpin — a short cylindrical bearing surface fitted between two arms of a crank and set parallel to the main shaft of the crankshaft
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- creampie — Alternative spelling of cream pie.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
- cyclopia — a congenital defect characterized by fusion of the orbits into a single cavity containing one eye.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- data cap — a limit imposed on the amount of data that can be transferred to an electronic device
- day camp — a camp for children providing no sleeping facilities and attended only during the day on weekdays.
- daypacks — Plural form of daypack.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- depacked — Simple past tense and past participle of depack.
- despatch — dispatch
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- digipack — a cardboard package for a compact disc or DVD
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.